A native camp near Cockle Bay, New South Wales, with a View of Parramatta River. Taken from Dawes's Point.

Title

A native camp near Cockle Bay, New South Wales, with a View of Parramatta River. Taken from Dawes's Point.

Source

Views in New South Wales. Sydney: West, 1813

Page or Plate number

plate 8

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 570a

Date made

1812

Place made

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

Finding location.

Loading map tiles.

Unfortunately the location could not be loaded.

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

22.9 x 36.7 cm (printed image)

Support

paper

Support size

31.6 x 46.3 cm (sheet)

Manufacturers mark

no manufacturer's mark

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

144089

Accession number

2005.291.8

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 6, 2004/2005 (2005-06-22)

Provenance

With Horden House, Sydney. This image was one of fourteen offered as a boxed set in: Governor Lachlan Macquarie. An important collection of rare books, manuscripts and pictorial works focussing on Macquarie's reign as Governor 1810-1822, Sydney: Hordern House, 1996, cat. no. 60. Private collection, Sydney. Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Horden House, Sydney, 2005

Credit line

Purchased 2004

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Aboriginal Australians

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Slager, Philip. | (1755–1815) Australian | English | Male | engraver

Eyre, John. | (1771–1812) English | Male | print after

West, Absalom. | (1795–) Australian | English | Male | publisher

Last Updated

28 Jul 2023